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I have had a life-long love affair with dollhouse miniatures, and careers in art education and interior design. I hope to combine these life experiences to help other miniature enthusiasts get more out of this wonderful hobby we enjoy, a hobby that often reaches the level of an art form.
Susan Downing

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The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death

Through the 1940s and 1950s, Frances Glessner Lee hosted a series of semi-annual seminars in homicide investigation at Harvard University. Using intricately constructed dioramas of actual crime scenes, complete with working doors, windows and lights, Frances taught detectives, prosecutors, and other investigators to solve real crimes with the “Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death.”